{"id":247033,"date":"2010-01-29T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10871"},"modified":"2010-01-29T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T16:27:43","slug":"xkcd-has-the-spirit-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247033","title":{"rendered":"xkcd has the Spirit | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/695\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/01\/xkcd_spirit.jpg\" alt=\"xkcd_spirit\" title=\"xkcd_spirit\" width=\"220\" height=\"216\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10872\"\/><\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/695\/\">Today&#8217;s xkcd comic<\/a> takes a somewhat different stance on the plight of Spirit than <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/27\/spirit-is-willing-but-the-metal-is-weak\/\">I did<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s funny how we anthropomorphize objects, especially when they are vaguely human or animal looking. Especially if they&#8217;re cute. And Spirit is very cute.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who&#8217;s a good rover? Hmmm? You are! You&#8217;re a good rover!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jNUOBtKIQXqNyn78ePHO9A6Ol40\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jNUOBtKIQXqNyn78ePHO9A6Ol40\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jNUOBtKIQXqNyn78ePHO9A6Ol40\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jNUOBtKIQXqNyn78ePHO9A6Ol40\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/deAVV-wOKDk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/I2mbuAIqXi8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s xkcd comic takes a somewhat different stance on the plight of Spirit than I did. Still, it&#8217;s funny how we anthropomorphize objects, especially when they are vaguely human or animal looking. Especially if they&#8217;re cute. And Spirit is very cute. Who&#8217;s a good rover? Hmmm? You are! You&#8217;re a good rover!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}